The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-18
FLORIDA.

| FLORIDA.
Marion county will vote on the prohibit
ton question Tuesday.
The orange and pear groves are looking
finely around Bronson.
Bronson is the banner dry town in the
State; voting 9S dry and wet.
William Lumpkin was accidentally shot
in the leg at Blue Springs Monday.
The prospects are Frightening for a good
substantial school building at 1itusville
Work on Roberts new livery stable at
Pensacola is being rapidly pushed forward.
The real estate business promises to be
/ lively in and around Pensacola this winter
The bridge at Ormond is completed and
foot passengers are now crossing on the
structure.
Acow deliberately walked into the dining
room of the Magnolia Hotek at Ocala last
Saturday
Palmetto, Sara Sofa and Manatee want
to be the county seat of Manatee A lively
fight is in progress.
A corner lot 90x60 feet, on the square at
Ocala, was recently sold for $1,000. 1t is
to be adorned by handsome structure.
The books of the Titusville library ar
rived on Monday, and the library will be
opened to members for selection on Oct. l.
Under the nom de plume of "Ocala,"
some one from that place suggests the name
of John F. Dunn, banker, for Governor
The sweet potato crop in Levy county,
seems to be good, judging from the way the
farmers are bringing them into the market
at Bronson.
Within a square of the public square at
| Ocala, there are seven stores now being
completed, all of which will be occupied as
soon as finished
The walls of the new Presbyterian church
at Pensacola are nearing completion, and
the building will soon be ready for the roof
and inside work
Mr.. Edward Kaminski with Kaminski &
Emanuel has been notified of the death of
his Aunt Ann, in Chicago, who left him
| legacy OF $4,000
The HARDWOOD property at Daytona has
been sold to the Harwood Lumber and In
provement Company, which has been incor-
porated, with capital of $75, 900.
The County School Board have appropri-
| ated $500 for all purposes for the Daytona
schools. This is the largest amount ever
appropriated and is gain of S160 over last
year.
A burglar went through several rooms in
the Magnolia hotel, at Ocala, on Monday
night, and made his escape with 6Oc.. a sad
commentary on the financial condition of
the guests.
B. A. Coachman, of the Florida Mortgage
and Investment Company, says his compa-
NY will put on a steamer between Tampa
and Punta Coz da as soon as the season is
fairly opened.
A Ttusville man was out watching his
melon patch Sunday night when he heard a
| rustllng in his orange grove near by and
fired, bringing down his mother-in-aw He
| Is under arrest.
Anthony Pfund, wealthy capitalist of
New York, contemplates locating beer
| garden at Silver Spring and investing in
other property, but he intends to wait until
after the election
John Alexander, of Mariana, had the
misfortune, few days since, of losing his
| gin house, eight or ten bales of cotton and
2,c0O bushels of cotton seed by fire, from the
fiendish hand of some one.
DIR. Mary Stafford, of Tarpon Springs
addressed large and attentive au-
dience on the prohibition question in the
garrison at Tampa Sunday evening, and
again III the opera house that night
j. W. Wellington gathered at the Thorp
grove, near Sanford. ITO crates of fine
lemons from twenty-five trees. The lemon
yield throughout South Florida is first-rate
this year and the fruit is commanding good
prices.
At Tallahassee E. A. Bryan and A. Nc
Mahon have purchased the mercantile in
terests of A. I. MacIntyre, for several
months under the management of e. A.
| Crawford. The style of the firm will be
Mcmahon 81 Bryan.
The weekly press of the State is doing
yeomanry service for prohibition. Prohi-
bition seems to be sweeping everything be-
| fore 1t, and it will at the present vote, not
be many months before nearly every county
in the State is in the prohibition column
A teachers institute will DO held at the
Tampa High school building commencing
on Sept. ~ and continue four days All
the teachers in the county are urged to be
present. Maj. A. j. Russell, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, will be in at
tendance.
The teachers institute which had been in
session in Bloomingdale four days previous,
closed last Friday evening. Fourteen teach
ers were i'll attendance, six of whom were
granted second grade certificates Seven
OF those present already had second grade
certificates, received last July.
At Daytona indications for large ex-
penditure III new buildings, both residence
and business houses, was never better than
at the present time There are rumors and
facts that from twelve to twenty pew bust
ness houses will be erected in the near
future, and more than fifty residences.
Jeter a. Boardmaa have awarded CON
tract for brick for Ocala waterworks TO
Mclver 81 Wallace There will be nearly
half million of brick, and will require
seyenty-tlve cars TO transport them Tie
brick will come from Camp Bros S kiln at
Campville. Work will begin in about thirty
days,
w, N. Cathcart, who has been at Egg
mont Key the past two months Us secretary
to Dr. Heberslnith, came up Tuesday night
He says they only lost two yellow fever
patients at the key this season, neither of
whom should be counted, as one was a
man % years old and the other was Chi
! nanian.
Deputy Sheriff Z. o. Kibbie was found
dead in his bed at Tampa last Saturday
morning. He had been confined 60 his
room several days previous and hal n con
gestiye chill on Friday He was subject 70
apoplectic fits, and 1t is supposed that he die 1
during one, as his limbs and features were
Gil drawn out Of shape when he was
found.
q. A. Blanc, who lives on Black Lake,
about three miles from Branford, exhibited
the hide of "A huge rHttlesnake in town on
Monday. The skin was eight feet long aud
twelve inches across the widest part. His
snakesnip had eleven rattles and a button,
and bis fangs were an inch long. Mr. Blanc